Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...darkness for a wheel's full circle. Yet the president of Wheaton College may succeed where the great laugher failed. He has the privilege of being able to confront teachers conclaves with his back to the club message. Rabelais could only address the intelligent few from behind a smoke screen of slapstick and in the language of a four-a-day fall...
...course, we know as sensible people that the tariff argument can and has been used for the purpose of covering a multitude of political sins ... a handy smoke screen." He pointed out that the Republican tariff plank was seven lines long in 1920, two pages long...
...Dancing Daughters shows young life cocktailored by Director Harry Beaumont. It is exactly the atmosphere on the screen that F. Scott Fitzgerald's books have when you read them and that they do not have when filmed. Joan Crawford, a nice girl who acts wild, and Anita Page, a nastv but quiet girl, are after Rich John Mack Brown. Miss Crawford, competent actress, drinks out of the cocktail glasses of three young men and later in the evening kisses three young men in turn, in public, and Rich Boy Brown marries mercenary Miss Page. Young love is thwarted...
...Klan warns him to let married women alone. Meighan wants a wife and no jezebelling so he goes to Ellis Island and makes a deal with an immigrant girl, Renee Adoree. A subplot (Roscoe has a mistress) makes possible a climax complicated in synopsis but effective melodrama on the screen. James Cruze directed and Rex Beach, who taught many studio writers all they know about making a thriller, wrote the story. Best shot: Renee Adoree in swimming at night in a coal black river. Good entertainment...
Work which started a week and a half ago has been concentrated so far on building exteriors and on various screen tests. Saturday with the sanction of the Harvard Athletic authorities the Film Foundation camera men initiated a series of athletic pictures by taking various shots of the Army game. With the game itself was included views of the crowds crossing the bridge and cheering in the Stadium in an attempt to reproduce for winter gatherings of graduates the complete big game atmosphere of the fall. All told, athletic pictures will comprise about one third of the completed film...